Some Damn Foolish Thing
Thomas Laqueur: Wrong Turn in Sarajevo, 5 December 2013
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
by Christopher Clark.
Allen Lane, 697 pp., £30, September 2013,978 0 7139 9942 6 Show More
by Christopher Clark.
Allen Lane, 697 pp., £30, September 2013,
“... earlier. A comparable mistake today, Johnson believed, could leave twenty million dead instantly. Christopher Clark’s breathtakingly good book is, much more self-consciously than Tuchman’s, also a history for its – that is, our – times. An act of terrorism in Sarajevo – the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and his wife ... ”